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SPELMA N
THE VOICE
OF BLACK WOMANHOOD
SPO TLIGHT
Volume VI
April, 1976
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Students Petition For
Black Woman President
Lerone Bennett
Manley Convocation
Features Historian
In March The Albert E.
Manley Convocation Series
presented its ninth guest
speaker for the year, historian
Lerone Bennett. The Spelman
family and friends were greatly
enlightened by Lerone Bennett
as he opened his message
speaking about the state of this
country and the state of Black
people in this country. Mr.
Bennett talked of the
seriousness involved in the
decisions that will be made in
America on its 200-year an
niversary and of the poverty,
deprivation and oppression that
many Blacks continue to live in
throughout America. In
1 reference to the condition of
Black people in America today,
Mr. Bennett said to the students
of the Atlanta University
Center, “I hope they will un
derstand me when I say that the
times are so desperate, the odds
are so momentous, that no
student, certainly no Black
student, has a right, at this
time, to do less than his best on
behalf of Black people and on
behalf of himself.”
“Seeds for the Next Harvest”
was the title of Mr. Bennett’s
message. In it he said that “In
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Morehouse SGA
A First For Spelman
If Efforts Are Successful
Jeta Edwards
Margaret Lee
LERONE BENNETT
Until March 22, 1976 the
issue of who would be the next
president of Spelman College
was primarly discussed within
small groups in dorms and in
passing. This was primarily the
case because it was taken for
granted by many of the Spelman
students that the next president
Embezzlement Uncovered
Silvia Wofford
Associate Editor
On April 6, the Advisory
Board of Morehouse College
unanimously aquitted Harold
Spence, S.G.S. vice-president,
Geroge Little, treasurer, and
Gregory Battle, former
recording secretary, on charges
of conspiracy to embezzle due
Morehouse Student To
Publish Book Of Original Poems
Cuy Louise-Julie
Guy Louise-Julie, a freshman
student at Morehouse College
has written a book of original
poems which will be published
by the University of Lubum-
bashi in Zaire, West Africa.
The book, entitled A Man,
contains approximately 50
compositions and is written
entirely in French. Mr. Louise-
Julie was contacted by Dr.
Ngonzola, a professor in the
Atlanta University Center. Dr.
Ngonzola had read one of Mr.
Louise-Julie’s poems written in
French and became quite in
terested in the young man’s
work.
Following contact with the
Ambassador of Zaire, it was
agreed that Mr. Louise-Julie’s
works would be published. The
book will be on the market
during the latter part of
December 1975 or the first of
January 1976.
In addition to publishing this
book, Mr. Louise-Julie appears
regularly on the television
program “Future Shock”,
hosted by internationally known
c oul singer James Brown.
Mr. Louise-Julie is a pre-med
major at Morehouse College.
to unsufficient evidence. The
Board will adminsiter a stiff
letter of warning and advice to
the three gentlemen to never
sign a documnet without
reading it thoroughly.
Rickey Peete, ex-president
of Morehouse’s Student
Government Association was
found guilty of embezzlement
aid misrepresentation of the
Student Government
Association funds. He must also
restitute the entire sume of
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Rickey W. Peete
SGA President
Black Women
And The ERA
For those of us unfamiliar with
it, the Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA) states: “Section 1.
Equality of Rights under the law
shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any
State on account of sex.”
“Section 2. The Congress shall
have the power to enforce, by
appropriate legislation, the
pro visions of this article.”
To understand our stake in the
ERA as black women, we should
understand several basic facts
regarding the Amendment. The
ERA would establish a fun
damental legal principle; that
the law must deal with the
particular attributes of in
dividuals, not with
dassifications attributed to one
by virtue of sex.
Just as the Fourteenth
Amendment established the
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of Spelman College would be a
Hack woman. The issue to
demand the next president of
the oldest Black woman’s
institution in the nation be a
Black woman was spearheaded
by a group of approximately
twenty-five freshman, who were
shocked at the second ap
pearance of Dr. David Steward
on the Spelman campus. Dr.
Steward is dean of students at
the University of Pennsylvania,
aid one of the three final
candidates in the selection
process for president of
Spelman’s College.
By April 1, 1976, the
Spelman Student Government
Association was called upon to
take a leadership role in
demanding that Spelman
College have a Black woman as
her next college president.
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1976
Election Year
By Ronny E. Jones
1976 is more than America’s
Bicentennial Anniversary: it is a
presidential election year. A
presidential election year is the
time when smiling, ganolous
politicians swarm all over the
nation soliciting votes. Votes
are requisite for election; they
are the life-sustaining force of
political asphants. Thus, the
latter tries to sell them on the
issues, accomplishments in the
past and promises for the
future. But far too often, the
Hack and poor masses of
America receive an inadequate
product after the election.
However, this group represents
a considerable potential political
power which can be bought to
bear on the political process.
The context of the times
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